The company used to pitch itself as a purveyor of big-data analytics for Hadoop, but has switched focus to become a 'big-data facilitator.' It is now targeting visual data prep and exploration use cases, but is entering a highly competitive sector.

Self-service data-preparation specialist Trifacta has announced the availability of its Wrangler Edge and Wrangler Enterprise software on the AWS Marketplace, as well as expanded support for AWS Services, including S3 and EMR.

This report from 451 Research's Total Data: Data Platforms & Analytics Market Monitor service provides updated market and vendor estimates through Q3 2017. The report leverages 451 Research's deep knowledge of and relationships within the data platforms and analytics market, resulting in a proprietary forecast based on a bottom-up analysis of 332 vendorsÃ¢â¬â¢ current revenue and growth expectations through 2021.

The company was acquired by Hitachi in early 2015. Now part of the newly formed Hitachi Vantara, it will play a crucial role in exploiting the IoT-driven convergence of operational and information technology.

Unifi Version 2.0 adds an artificial intelligence-powered recommendation engine, among other things, to the company's combination of data governance, catalog, discovery, preparation and collaboration functionality.